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Questioned in Parliament about his poetry plans, Michael Gove quoted several lines he himself had learned by heart - one from Shakespeare and also "Facts are chiels that winna ding", penned by which poet?
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2012
“Ay, laddie; but chiels o’ his stamp never gang straight to their mark.
From Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
No other could wake such detestable groans, With reed and with chanter—with bag and with drones: All day and all night he delighted the chiels With sniggering pibrochs and jiggety reels.
From The Best Nonsense Verses by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
Sturdy chiels, not one under six feet high, and broad and hard in proportion.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
For us and for our Stage, should ony spier, "Whase aught thae chiels maks a' this bustle here?"
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
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